by apscuftest | Feb 3, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
It has become a media truism that Pennsyvlania’s new governor sees New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a role model. That makes Gov. Christie’s reaction, and Gov. Corbett’s after that, to the Higher Ed Task Force report released the first week of...
by apscuftest | Feb 1, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
These are difficult financial times, and this has escaped no one’s notice. Faculty have been hearing this mantra repeatedly on their campuses, local APSCUF leadership is completely aware of this fact, and so is the leadership at State APSCUF. Every...
by apscuftest | Jan 31, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
The Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) adopted new policies at their quarterly meeting on January 19th. The meeting was conducted at PASSHE headquarters in Harrisburg. The finance, administration, and facilities committee proposed...
by apscuftest | Jan 29, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
Here’s an important volley in the efforts of faculty to be heard, coming out of the LA meeting last weekend — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-meisenhelder/higher-education-at-the-c_b_814569.html? — As I understand, the way Huffington works, the...
by apscuftest | Jan 25, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
Composed 25,000 feet over someplace mountainous & snowy, I suspect — no hope — that in the next couple days you will hear from the media several times about the “event” I am returning from in Los Angeles (Monday’s story). The...
by apscuftest | Jan 23, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
Los Angeles — (date & time unclear) I am in L.A. at the invitation of the California Faculty Association (CFA) — the meeting was referred to in Friday’s Inside Higher Ed article . There are somewhere between 65-70 attendees from 21 states....
